Emergency C-Section

I noticed my baby wasn't moving this saturday night around 11pm. We were really scared that she was dead because she was just floating around inside of me. Usually she was very active. Around 2am after still not having any movement I told my partner to call the midwife. We didn't really have any hope left by that time but I was willing to do anything. She said she could come out sunday to check for a heartbeat with doppler. We said alright and got ready to go to bed. Then she called back and said if we wanted to be sure that we could go to a hospital just to see. When we got there they found a 140-150 heartrate right away so we were relieved. But even after a 30 min ultrasound with absolutely no movement other than the heart they suggested an emergency c-section. We planned to have an unassisted birth at home like with my first daughter so it was pretty scary but a dead baby was way scarier so I agreed.

Our daughter was pulled out of me at 11:48am on 11/18 totally responsive and breathing on her own. She was a natural at nursing and just took to it right away. They kept us there for a while but since we had nothing with us other than ourselves and our 5 year old (who by that time was getting pretty antsy) I was discharged and we signed the baby out AMA on monday at around 7pm but with a followup appointment with our ped. the next day. Yesterday she came out for the checkup and found her still to be very healthy and with no problems.

I'm sore and still have 15 staples in my tummy but our little Cleopatra is doing so great!

None of the doctors could really say why she hadn't been moving or why she was so perfect after she came out of me. The placenta was healthy too.